Influencing the Curriculum
These curriculum influencers follow students throughout their educational career. My back hurts just thinking about the hundreds of them students have to carry throughout their lives!
What are textbooks?
This is the oldest and most common organization plan for the curriculum.
What is the subject-area curriculum?
Benjamin S. Bloom created a hierarchy of intellectual behaviors, but it's known as this.
What is Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives?
Inquiry instruction was made popular by this father of education.
Who is John Dewey?
Schools determined to do well on standardized tests have been know to do this to ensure high results.
What is "teaching to the test"?
Sure! Religious, social, and economic groups have tried to influence curriculums, but these two are concerned with the global economy.
What are professional and political groups?
The integrated curriculum is widely accepted by this level of schools.
What are elementary schools?
What are educational goals?
What is cooperative learning?
Mrs. Jones gave Johnny a sticker for reading a book on feminists. She might have one of these.
What is a hidden curriculum?
Common Core State Standards was created by the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association in this year.
What is 2010?
Oh boy... this curriculum design is too permissive and doesn't pay enough attention to subject-matter mastery! At least, that's what its critics say.
What is student-centered curriculum design?
An educational objective has to have these three outcomes to know if a student has reached their goal.
What are clearly defined, observable, and measurable outcomes?
Nondirective instructive has this number of sequenced phases that it follows.
What is 5?
The subject-area curriculum takes us back to the basics like reading, writing, and math. Sounds like believers of this philosophy are supporters!
Who are the essentialists?
Ever since state accountability and assessment programs came into play, these influencers have less power over what and when subjects are taught.
Who are teachers?
This curriculum design is concerned about the broadness of a student's education, not the depth of it.
What is the constructivist curriculum design?
These two dimensions are now represented in Bloom's Taxonomy of Education Objectives since its recent revision.
What are a knowledge dimension and a cognitive dimension?
Problem-based learning hopes to offer students these kinds of problems.
What are real world or relevant problems?
That curriculum cycle never seems to end flip flopping back and forth between these two learning orientations.
What are student-centered and subject-centered orientations?
Uh oh... Your school didn't do so well on their standardized tests? According to the No Child Left Behind Act, these two sanctions could result.
What are restructuring and state takeover?
This is the first decade where core curriculum designs made its debut.
What is the 1930s?
Want to know if you really learned something? Try these 6 ways of thinking.
What is to remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create?
Perception, analysis, reflection, synthesis, and action are all part of this process.
What is critical thinking?
An instructional process has to start with these couple of things before it can begin.
What are goals and objectives for instruction and roles and responsibilities of learners?